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Mary Borsellino is one of my awesome writing buddies. Unlike me, she has actual books to show for her literary efforts. You can check out and purchase her Punk Rock Vampire e-books (is that the word? ‘e-books’?) at http://www.thewolfhouse.net

Now, I read and loved the first in the Wolf House series – Origins and Overtures – but confessed to Mary that I wasn’t really a big fan of vampires. Or of punk for that matter. This led to discussions on music/monster mash-ups and my decision to one day write the folk-rock bigfoot story the world never knew it needed.

Until that day we must make do with this picture of a hip hop werewolf.

A Hip-hop Werewolf, Bette, and Blake

Looking on in shock and disbelief are snarky emo teen Bette and erudite vampire Blake from Mary’s books.

Do check those books out, eh. I hear the second one is due out soon! Get on the bandwagon now so you can be all “Tch! I read them back in 09. Where have YOU been?”later on.

Yeah!

A huge thank-you to Todd for making me laugh incredibly hard with his most excellent picture. I love it muchly.

I have some recent artwork by Audrey which I will post sometime early next week. My time is largely being eaten by editing and re-writing book four, as its deadline approacheth. Whee!

“Mary Borsellino’s The Wolf House introduces readers to a group of smart, hip, snarky young friends who like to eat pizza, gossip, watch horror movies and, oh yeah, hang out with vampires. Just your typical high school students.”

Her world-building is impeccable, with a consistent and fresh vampire mythology. Her characterisation is a joy, in which no-one is perfectly good or perfectly evil, and yet they are all perfectly human (vampire and human alike) and the most real people I have seen striding out of a page in a long time.

Mary Borsellino writes stories that break apart your expectations. She is never predictable, always engaging and brings insight, intelligence and emotional reality into a tale that is also full of action and excitement.”

Audrey Fox said: “I think it is amazing and worth checking out. Mary is a phenomenal writer and it has been a privilege to work on the series with her.”

Erinna said: “Excellent fun teenage characters who are actual teenagers. Queer and genderqueer characters as main characters, and fully realised people, full of flaws and bright points and awesome. Motherfuckin vampires.”

Dr Stephen Dann said: Go buy The Wolf House. Then come back and talk about how amazing it is, and how awesome it will be to read the entire series, and how we’re all going to be able to say “I read that before it became a major motion picture franchise”.

Beckah said: “She describes it as “Twilight for punks,” but it could just as easily be called “Twilight for feminists” or “Twilight for queers” or “Twilight for people who really like monster movies” or “Twilight for people who don’t — well, ok, who do think that stalking can be kind of sexy, especially if it’s a vampire, but only if the author admits it’s kind of creepy too” or “Twilight for people who think everything would be better with kittens in.”"

Gracie said: “IF YOU DON’T HAVE YOUR COPY YET, THEN WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?? And I’m not just saying that because I’m one of the people that it’s dedicated to.”

Theonlytwin posted an excerpt and then said: “AND IT GETS BETTER. we haven’t even got to the biting, and the kitten called Bikini Kill. want it? yes you do. go buy it. it’s five dollars of boykissing and brilliant bands who are sometimes vampire hunters and lust and love and movies and tattoos and shoplifting and perfect perfect perfect dialogue.”

Severedscythe said: “I read it in one sitting this morning/afternoon because I literally couldn’t STOP. So I am generally unwashed and f-disgusting because I COULD NOT GO AWAY FROM THE BOOK. YES. READ IT.”

Chameleongirl said: “Mary describes it as Twilight for punks, but it is so much more. Real teenagers with real feelings and failures and queer characters that aren’t cliches!”

Nat said: “It has its own vampire lore which I found grippingly interesting and you better believe they don’t sparkle. It has teenagers being teenagers and vampires being vampires and teenagers being vampires. It has scenekids and people with tattoos. It has queer relationships and straight relationships and love and not-love. Vampires kill humans, but not every human they meet. It has some unhappy endings, yet it does not really have the idea of good and evil, just of things living according to their nature. But mostly it has realistic characters, complex, lovable characters, human or vampire, like seriously some of the best characters I have EVER read. “

I am delighted by such a kind and enthusiastic reception to my trashy little vampire nonsense! Wheee!

Also if you look to the menu on the right, you will see that there is now a fairly rudimentary and not particularly sparkly Facebook page for the series now. Clearly it requires some fabulous-ing up with reader input, yep yep.